-Firefox Takes a 15% Speed Jump Mozilla’s new Firefox 3.6 is about 15% faster than its predecessor, Firefox 3.5, but still is a slowpoke compared to the current speed demons, Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome, benchmark tests show. -12 Coolest Steampunk Gadgets What started as a literary genre has since evolved into an amazing urban [...]
In this game, you can put your peripheral vision to the test. Search for numbers, letters, or symbols, and using your mouse, point at the box where they fit. The game consist of 20 levels. Level 12 to 20 are a bit harder because the input boxes are turned or mirrored. To get a good [...]
Need some free and quick tech support for your Linux-based operating system? Then just follow these hilarious words of wisdom sampled from an old IRC conversation I stumbled upon this morning. < dm > I discovered that you’d never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in [...]
Chances are, if youre reading this right now, you don’t live in Yemen or Myanmar. Internet censorship can take many forms, from restricting private internet access to blocking searches for politically volatile keywords. Exercise your internet freedom by taking a look at this informative presentation.
Anthony Atala’s state-of-the-art lab grows human organs — from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. In the following video, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that “prints” human tissue.
Slime mold may be a pain in the home, but it turns out it can teach us how to build more effective wireless networks. Researchers at Hokkaido University in Japan have just published the results of a study into how the mold spread. The testing was based on the idea that nature would find the [...]
Another technology which could only be seen in sci-fi movies a decade ago will soon be available to law enforcement agencies everywhere. Check it out: [Via Newlaunches]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] You can read about science all you like, but until you see it in live action you never grasp the little moments that fill you with wonder. Here is such a moment for me… This past semester my professor showed us the following video of a neutrophil (a [...]
Whether or not this has been a long time in coming, the time has come – the New York Times has announced that it will be charging for “frequent” access to its website. Visitors will be able to view a certain number of articles each month for free, after which they can pay a flat [...]
It appears the title of the game Big Brain Academy might not just be a marketing tool. A study in a medical journal reports that the size of some sections of the brain can affect your ability to play video games. The study in Cerebral Cortex, used a test group of 29 men and 10 [...]
Michael Deal, a remarkably talented graphic designer, has taken up a rather monumental project which he calls Charting the Beatles. While the title may sound simple, the breathtaking graphs that he’s created are anything but. Considering that I’m a huge fan of the Beatles and an absolute data nut, this project is absolutely enthralling for [...]
If you’re a guy and a gamer, you’ll definitely want to read this: One in five women have dumped their partner because of their web or gaming habits, says MyVoucherCodes. Research by the UK online discount site revealed that 80 per cent of women claim their other half spends too much time playing computer games [...]
